#5 Jacob Gill Season 2024-25

2025 Honors -- Named to 2025 Player Council... 2025 -- Started at wide receiver in six games, playing in all 11... has 22 catches for 260 yards (11.8 yards per catch avg.) with a long of 44 yards and one touchdown on the season... led team with five catches for 52 yards (long of 22 yards) at Iowa State... led team with four catches for 23 yards (long of 13 yards) and his first touchdown catch of the season in 20-17 win over Michigan State... led team with two catches for 43 yards (long of 38 yards) in 16-18 loss to #9 Oregon... caught three passes for 28 yards (long of 11 yards) in 15-20 loss to #11/12 Indiana... caught three passes for 25 yards (long of 11 yards) in 41-3 win over Minnesota... caught one pass for a season-high long of 44 yards in 21-26 loss at #17 USC.

2024 Honors -- Team Hustle Award, offense... 2024 -- Started at wide receiver in all 13 games... lead team in receiving with 35 catches for 411 yards (11.7 yards per catch avg.), two touchdowns and a long reception of 59 yards on the season... led team in receiving with a career-high six catches for a career-high 138 yards (career-high long of 59 yards) in 17-20 loss at UCLA... became first Hawkeye with a 100-yard receiving game since 2022 (122-Sam LaPorta), the first wide receiver since 2021 (106-Charlie Jones), and the first wideout since 2020 (140-Ihmir Smith-Marsette)... led team in receiving with five catches for 44 yards (long of 12 yards) in 38-21 win over Troy... led team in receiving with four catches for a career-high 47 yards (long of 21 yards) in 19-20 loss to Iowa State... led team in receiving with four catches for 29 yards (long of 10 yards), and rushed once for negative two yards, in 29-13 win over Maryland... caught three passes for 46 yards (long of 31 yards) and his first touchdown as a Hawkeye, and rushed once for six yards in season-opening 40-0 shutout of Illinois State... led team with three catches for six yards (long of six yards) in 40-14 win over Northwestern... caught three passes for 29 yards (long of 14 yards) in 24-27 Music City Bowl loss to Missouri... caught three passes for 24 yards (long of 22 yards), in 7-35 loss at #3/3 Ohio State... letterwinner.

 

At Northwestern -- Totaled 17 receptions for 195 yards and two touchdowns in three years with the Wildcats.

2023 -- Hampered by an injury in 2023, seeing action in only four games… had one catch for 11 yards at Rutgers.

2022 -- Appeared in all 12 games, including two starts… had a catch in seven games, totaling 99 yards (14.1 ypc) and one touchdown… scored a touchdown on a career-long 47-yard reception at Penn State… hauled in one catch for 20 yards in season finale versus Illinois.

2021 -- Saw action in all 12 contests… recorded eight catches for 85 yards and a score… his first career touchdown was a 31-yard reception against Duke.

High School Honors -- Two-time first-team All-North Carolina Cap 7 Conference and First Team All-North Carolina 4A... Career -- Cardinal Gibbons High School’s all-time leader in receptions, receiving touchdowns and receiving yards… recorded 62 receptions, 806 yards and nine touchdowns as a junior… also lettered in track.

Personal -- Born 1/16/2003… graduate nondepartmental student… member of prep Honor Roll… parents are Melvin and Lisa Gill… high school coach was Steven Wright.